Marc Maron interviews Josh Radnor on WTF podcast

Bexley native and
How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor is featured today on comedian Marc Maron's WTF
podcast, an interview show notorious for coaxing vulnerable disclosures from even the most
tight-lipped of celebrities.

The hour-and-a-half-long chat addresses Radnor's evolution as an actor, writer and
director — as well as his growth as a person — from the moment he found out he'd gotten a
gig on a CBS series to today, the day the long-running sitcom airs its final episode.

"I think about the fact that a 16-year-old boy in Ohio decided what I was going to do for my
life," Radnor told Maron while explaining his involvement with high-school musicals and the
Columbus Children's Theatre.

"I always try to remember the 16-year-old me — like how psyched he would be," Radnor said.
"He would be pretty psyched. I think I exceeded his dreams on some level ... that's a pretty cool
thing."

Maron had only seen three episodes of
How I Met Your Mother before his interview with Radnor.

"I didn't see me not knowing really anything about the show he's been doing for 9 years as an
obstacle to us talking," Maron wrote in his weekly email newsletter. "I was right. It wasn't. We
talked about it but the guy's got a lot more going than just that show. He's a grounded, thoughtful
dude with a tight work ethic and I loved talking to him."

New listeners of WTF, take note: Maron typically opens his podcasts with lengthy, personal
introductions, so the actual interview starts at 17:41 into the audio file.